Alexa will provide more educational answers to questions, praise kids for saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and boast strict privacy controls.

Despite a revenue dip on the same period in 2017, Character’s UK domestic sales achieved record levels in January and February 2018.

“Although we are a tiny player in the toy arena, we feel it is our duty to support an event which encourages creativity and innovation,” said Entertoyment director Josep Pastor.

We caught up with Gruhl and Weir to learn more about how they split design duties on a game, and find out more about the latest addition to the Happy Salmon family: Funky Chicken.

We caught up with Fraser-Bell to find out more about where the idea for FReNeTiC came from, and what he learnt from the design process behind Accentuate that informed the development of his new game.

Hasbro’s net revenues for the first quarter 2018 decreased 16 per cent to $716.3m.

Margo Georgiadis has left Mattel to take on the role of CEO at Ancestry.

Mojo Nation is bringing London’s best (and most raucous) music quiz to the toy and game design community on Wednesday, June 13th.

The challenge: 50 miles through the Chiltern Hills, followed by 50km round London, through the night, on the same day.

“Spin Master is excited to be partnering with Mojo Nation this year and looking forward to meeting with the UK’s most talented top designers and toy inventors at the 2018 Pitch event,” said David Winter, inventor relations at Spin Master.